Improvement in paper-files



UNITED STATEs EMANUEL MOTZ, or WOODWARD, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-FILES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,144, dated January21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMANUEL Mom, of W'oodward, in the county of Centreand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Paper-File,of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a face view of my improved paper-file. Fig. 2 is atransverse section of the same on the line 0 c, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to an improved device for holding newspapers orother papers filed; and consists in the combination of a plain rod witha binding-string and windingpin, the bar furnishing the rigid back forthe papers filed, while the string ties the papers together and to thefile, the pin holding the string in proper tension.

A in the drawing represents a bar made of wood or other material, aslong, about, as the folded papers to be filed, and either of plain formor curved and decorated in suitable manner. B is a pin, fitted throughthe middle of the bar A, with a handle or knob at the end to be easilyturned. 0 is a string, fastened in the middle to the pin B, and carriedtoward the endsof the bar and through holes in the bar. The ends of thestring 0 have metallic tips I) I), like shoe-strings.

The tips are used to pierce the paper in line with the holes a of thebar, and to thereby connect the paper to the bar. The string, be-

ing tied after its ends have been drawnv through the paper is drawntight by a few turns of the pin B, which winds it up. In this manner avery simple and effective file is proand described.

EMANUEL MOTZ.

Witnesses:

A. V. BRIESEN, ROBT. J. MITCHELL.

